Ifeoma Ajunwa stands smiling in a natural setting

The Fresno State Library is pleased to welcome award-winning legal scholar Ifeoma Ajunwa for a timely and thought-provoking talk, “The Quantified Worker,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at the Fresno State Library. As artificial intelligence continues to reshape how we live and work, this event offers our campus and community an opportunity to better understand the rapidly evolving relationship between technology and the workplace. Hosted in the Library’s Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery, the lecture is open to the public and free of charge. 

Drawing from her acclaimed 2023 book, “The Quantified Worker,” published by Cambridge University Press, Ajunwa will explore how AI systems are increasingly used to recruit, evaluate, monitor and even discipline employees. She highlights how these technologies are shifting workplace power toward data-driven systems—and what workers, students and future leaders need to know to navigate and thrive in this new environment. Her work invites critical conversation about ethics, accountability and the human impact of innovation.

Ajunwa is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School, where she also serves as associate dean of projects and partnerships and founding director of the AI and the Future of Work Program. A nationally recognized expert at the intersection of law, ethics and technology, she brings deep insight and an engaging perspective to one of the most pressing issues of our time. We invite students, faculty, staff and community members to join us for this important conversation.

The Womack Lecture is sponsored by the J. Prentise Womack fund, established by the late Rhoda Womack, in honor of her husband, who was a librarian at Fresno State from 1958 to 1970. The annual Womack Lectures are focused on issues of a bibliographic nature or on social concerns, as stipulated by the family’s bequest to the Library.

For information or special accommodation for the Library’s Womack Lecture, please call Library administration at 559.278.2403.